Trent Reznor Announces New Nine Inch Nails Lineup

Robin Finck is back in the band.

Posted on May 20, 2013 03:36 pm

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Following the surprise departure of Eric Avery from Nine Inch Nails last week, Trent Reznor announced that long time collaborator Robin Finck rejoins the band. As NME reports, Reznor released the following statement on the band's Facebook page:
"I am proud to announce that the tour lineup now includes the incredible Robin Finck. The addition of Robin to the mix of players I've assembled makes this band incredibly powerful and versatile. We are deep in the rehearsal process and it feels exciting and great to be back at this. Lots of information, surprises and sweat headed your way. Stay tuned!"
Eric Avery recently announced his departure ahead of Nine Inch Nails upcoming tour on Facebook, citing exhaustion and other projects as his reasons:
"It's with very mixed emotions I tell you all that I'm pulling out of NIN. I know. Its been a tough call and I don't know if it's the right one. But I really want to focus on my musical life here in LA, on film work in particular."He continued: "As the tour dates kept growing ... I just got overwhelmed. I just got home from a year of heavy travel with Garbage, the idea of leaving town for another year and a half, and with all the intensity that Nails demands."Fortunately my friend Trent [Reznor] understands all this and appreciated my pulling the plug now instead of deep into 2013 and 14. Go get 'em gentlemen."
As for Trent Reznor, he recently worked on two Queens of the Stone Age tracks from their upcoming sixth studio effort "... Like Clockwork." Reznor did keyboard parts and vocals for "Kalopsia," which can be found here, and "Fairweather Friends," which was also contributed by Elton John and ex-QOTSA Mark Lanegan and Nick Oliveri.

In the photos on Trent's Twitter, Josh Eustis is playing bass. So I think him and Cortini are probably going to juggle Keyboard/Bass duties. But that's just my speculation. I'm holding out for some kind of Finck/Belew twin guitar assault.

I'm glad to hear Finck will be joining them, but no matter who the line up is, the only thing that matters to me personally is that Trent is in it, and it's impossible for NIN to ever do a show without him, so I wasn't too worried or disappointed about losing Eric, even though i think he woulda been a good fit.

i've already expressed my absolute excitment about this many other places on the internet already, SO, all i'm gunna do here, is simply say....do, NOT, miss, Nine Inch Nails, live....especially with Robin back in and the rest of the lineup....guarantee it'll be one of the best things you have EVER experienced
and if not, I'll personally refund you

he started Jubilee with Michael Shuman from QOTSA, they released an EP which was super good and they even started pre orders for their first Album which never saw the light of the day because - from what I've read, not 100% sure - Aaron sort of put this whole pressure on himself because he'd just played with NIN and all eyes were on his next move and apparently this + heavy drug consumption led to a mental breakdown during the Jubilee album mixes the he didn't deem good enough. Then it's not told if it's because of this that Mickey left to concentrate on Mini Mansions (his other awesome band) or its the commitments he had with Mini that led aaron to get a little frustrated (beside the drug+pressure thing).